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no, they are porting apps just for the sake of fun & masochism.

now seriously, during the last months there been lots of RISC OS articles on OSNews, I think their community is just under some kind of renascence or at least they are getting their efforts some press. It would be a very fun world if RISC OS, Haiku, SkyOS, MorphOS and AmigaOS were to get more attention and more hardware. I am not saying that everyone and his dog should switch to use some niche platform, but sure they bring back the fun of computing.

people are porting things to RISC OS and we're on the eve of some shared initiative on their camp, I find these wonderful news, and I never ever used or saw RISC OS in action...

I do have couple macs, linuxes, Zeta, newtons and MagicCap devices in a single TCP/IP network which must classify me as some weirdo...

Not to mention the fact that cross platform applications are on the rise, making the question "What OS are you running?" rather moot.

The downside is that even alternative OS'es are beginning to look like all the other OS'es.

that much is true... everything now looks like some kernel + X11 server... I wish there was some cheap way to try RISC OS... I'd really like it.

With the new shared source announcement, a cheap entry (emultor+OS for free) might possibly on the cards.

I think its great news for all Risc OS users.

many thanks to Peter Naulls - the computer guru who did the port.

nx

it seems PJBonoVox is angry about his little willie that he yearns to lick but is too small to reach with his tongue.

If nobody was using RISC OS, how did Thunderbird get ported? Did the code just write itself?

I think maybe Peter Naulls is a programmer using RISC OS, and not a melon farmer who accidentally discovered a RISC OS port of Firefox running around in the field...

I'm assuming that you are either trolling, or one of these people who visits OS News but hates it when a story comes up that isn't about Windows, OS X or Linux.

There are enough users of RISC OS for there to be user groups and shows. They may not be great big corporate events, but the fact that they are thought to be worthwhile is illuminating.

Whatever its shortcomings, RISC OS can still do enough of the basics to make it useful for certain people.

With the efforts of Peter Naulls and others - and not least the developers of Firefox and Thunderbird - RISC OS is slowly catching up with the big OSes in terms of basic productivity.

This is precisely the sort of thing that makes projects like Firefox and Thunderbird worthwhile: while people may quibble about Firefox v. IE7 or Thunderbird v. Outlook, alternative platforms have access to the work these people are doing and the freedom to port them.